20 and each one struck down his opponent.(A) So the Arameans fled and Israel pursued them,(B) but King Ben-hadad of Aram escaped on a horse with the cavalry. 21 Then the king of Israel marched out and attacked the cavalry and the chariots. He inflicted a severe slaughter on Aram.

22 The prophet approached the king of Israel and said to him, “Go and strengthen yourself, then consider carefully[a] what you should do, for in the spring(C) the king of Aram will attack you.”

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Footnotes

  1. 20:22 Lit then know and see

20 “Then(A) a spirit came forward, stood before the Lord, and said, ‘I will entice him.’

“The Lord asked him, ‘How?’

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18 Why has my pain become unending,
my wound incurable,(A)
refusing to be healed?
You truly have become like a mirage to me—
water that is not reliable.

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